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...prisoners, in court last week for their first pretrial hearing, have all been accused by the Central Bureau of Investigation of taking part in a "deeprooted criminal conspiracy" to "overawe the central government." Already the prosecution has submitted a list of 575 witnesses it plans to call-suggesting that the trial is being staged as a courtroom spectacular that could last for months. Presumably the government is hoping to demonstrate, through testimony, that the threat of subversion justified Mrs. Gandhi 16 months ago in her drastic curtailment of civil rights...
...organizations inspired or revivified by the Chief Justice* have helped bring such reforms as the installation of professional administrators in the larger federal courts and the practice of having each judge take a case from start to finish instead of having one judge handle, say, all arraignments or all pretrial hearings. Burger also lets it be known that he personally looks at each judge's newly-required monthly report on the number of cases disposed of. Partly as a result of such changes, there has been a 34% increase since 1968 in the number of dispositions per judge...
...long after the visit to the Law School, Spiro was in Massachusetts General Hospital, suffering from emotional stress. He emerged in time for a court appearance last month, pleading "Not Guilty," and the court appointed a psychiatrist to examine him. Pretrial motions are in the offing, and Spiro-watchers are betting on a temporary insanity plea. No one knows for sure, of course, because his lawyer William P. Homans '41 is mum on the question...
Bailey investigators went to work retracing Patty's 591-day trail from kidnap to capture. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who is helping with the Hearst legal strategy: "Bailey is virtually the only criminal lawyer I've met who has mastered the art of pretrial investigation." Once an investigator himself, Bailey has his team visit witnesses, get photographs, collect documents, visit locales of key events?all so they can "stuff my head with enough facts for when the action starts...
...year later, a reporter asked Bailey if he would supervise a lie detector test for Cleveland Doctor Sam Sheppard, who had already been convicted of murdering his wife. Bailey agreed. To get permission for the test, Bailey mounted what became the first of his now familiar pretrial publicity campaigns. Appearing on a TV talk show, he used a lie detector to uncover the most burning secret of the day: that Johnny Carson would be Jack Paar's replacement on nighttime TV. The tactic did more for his ego than his client. The ploy hardened official resistance, and a state court...